Abstract Due to the bystander effect, there are many studies to see if people will stop to help another person in trouble. However, none of those studies looked at the specific variables of the person in need being drunk and passed out, and the gender of the confederate. There is no previous research on this study, which made us more eager to find out what the outcome of our research would be. The way the …showed first 75 words of 1734 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1734 total…may have been helped less, due to the fact that she was the confederate on the night when more people were out. If a future study is to come from this the things that need to be changed are the lengths of time for which the study is done; you need at least 2 hours of observation for each confederate on a busy traffic night, and try to get police cooperation; this is a hard one.